[ILUG] crontab and X

[Josip Deanović]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Donncha O Caoimh wrote:

> Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I would script an X program
> to start from crontab? I'm trying to run kppp to connect to surfnolimits
> and all of my efforts have failed. 
> 
> Even tried setting the DISPLAY variable before running it...

Why don't you use ifup and ifdown.
kppp will not work, try -h to see.

Josip Deanovic